{"id":80651,"date":"2011-03-30T16:03:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=80651"},"modified":"2011-03-30T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T11:04:14","slug":"armenian-president-deceives-russia-while-leaning-toward-the-west-sefilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/30\/armenian-president-deceives-russia-while-leaning-toward-the-west-sefilian.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian President Deceives Russia, While Leaning Toward the West: Sefilian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jirair Sefilian, member of the Sardarapat movement, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today, commented on the possibility of a revolution in Armenia from the West.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the main opposition \u2014 I&#8217;m referring to HAK [the Armenian National Congress] \u2014 are prepared to go to elections with [Armenian President] Serzh Sargsyan, what is the use of the West? We need to remember what has been the main strategic goal of the West here in the last 15\u201320 years: as soon as possible, a weakening of Russian influence in the South Caucasus,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the opposition activist&#8217;s opinion, &#8220;there&#8217;s no difference between the Ter-Petrossian and Serzh Sargsyan camps&#8221; in strategic terms when it comes to Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia-Turkey relations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If If there&#8217;s a difference here, it&#8217;s in the tactical minutiae; thus, the day when Armenia-Turkey relations begin to improve, the next question that&#8217;ll be raised is what are Russian forces doing here \u2014 after that their presence will become meaningless,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Further, Sefilian added, &#8220;The Russians are being deceived because Serzh Sargsyan has much deeper ties with the West than with Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We need to remember what has been the main strategic goal of the West here in the last 15\u201320 years: as soon as possible, a&#8230;&#8221;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21324,20402,21323,24035],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}